Residual Effects from Fish Wheel Capture and Handling of Yukon River Fall Chum Salmon

• Published in: North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• Main Authors: Bromaghin, Jeffrey F., Underwood, Tevis J., Hander, Raymond F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Keta; Yukon; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/m05-204.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/M05-204.1

Abstract Since 1996, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists have annually used fish wheels to capture migrating adult fall chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta in the main‐stem Yukon River, Alaska, and estimated their abundance via mark–recapture methods. In each year of the study, the mark rate of capt...